So I got my mark back for TMA02, 74%, that means I am firmly in the 2:1 bracket so far for DD316.

TMA03 is due in two weeks, Thanks to February being such a short month, so got to get cracking with that.

Happy new year everyone.

Hopefully it is a good one for you all.

i got it wrong.

I thought you started to pay back the SFE loan, 4 years after graduation.... i was wrong.

You start to pay back 4 years after you first take the loan.

So my starting to pay SFE back had nothing to do with claiming my diploma, that was just coincidence that a diploma arrives after 4 years, which is also 4 years after taking the first loan payment.

So my repayments starting had nothing to do with claiming the diploma, they would have started regardless.

So there you are, live and learn. Part time students will always start repaying their loans, before they finish their degree's.

Beware!!!!!!

As i have already mentioned, i claimed my diploma of higher education because i have completed level 2 now.

That is a good thing, a good motivator, however...

The OU changed my graduation due date with SFE, to the date i was awarded the Diploma.

So although i have 2 years left before i graduate with a degree, SFE think i have now graduated, and informed HMRC, who have started taking payment for my student loan!!!! from my wages.

One hour of phone calls later, i have sorted it out, and my graduation date has been changed to the correct date.

However it will take 6 weeks to process the change, so as well as the £62 payment to SFE for November, i will have to pay it again in December.

So please do beware, you can claim your Cert and Dips of Higher Education as you go along, but it might trigger SFE to start claiming the loan back early.

I got my mark for tma 1 back.

I was very surprised, I did not think I had written anything that interesting, I was just hoping to hit a 60% for displaying understanding of the course material.

my score was 85%, so very happy about that, although very surprised by such a strong mark.

so I fluked that mark, is it better to be lucky than good...……..

Got my TMA1 done and submitted in time, not sure if it is any good.

Block 2 is more interesting, all about the 'state' and what legitimises them 

Sorry, have not been blogging that much.

Been busy trying to get the jump to level 3 sorted.

Much harder again, there are many complex theorists and theories being discussed early on.

So having to put much energy into keeping up with the module materials.

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Nice picture of some ironic Advanced Warning Signs 

My set book for this module is Orwell's 1984.

I have been enjoying rereading it again.

The first TMA of this module is about populism and the idea of what makes us English.

The view counter just clocked 110,000. So a 10% increase in 10 weeks. Thank you to everyone who reads my blog.

I only have to write 4 essays and a double length final essay for this module, which is nice.

Here we go again.

So according to my module planner, my books have been dispatched  so hopefully they will be here soon.

The module website opens in one week.

Here we go again..

My books should have been dispatched yesterday.

But no tracking number has appeared yet on my student home.

Hopefully they were dispatched alright